Ushering In The Internet Era In The Magical World

Chapter 4: Was the First Battle a Triumph?

Yu Sheng'an's eyes misted over; he felt emotional as he watched Justin sneakily promoting the Internet Divine Skill to a beggar!

Finally, there was a user doing promotion for him. That was not an easy task!

I didn't think I would have to be part of the Internet Water Army[On China's Internet, an Internet Water Army or Wangluo shuijun is a group of Internet ghostwriters paid to post online comments according to particular content. Internet water armies were born in the early 2010s.]one day for survival.

However, he recalled that some of the Internet entrepreneurs also had to pretend to be users to chat with people in their early days. Hence, this was actually nothing.

Yu Sheng'an began to feel much better after he sorted out his thoughts!

That's right. The "Library" was the ultimate solution that Yu Sheng'an came up with to resolve the "User Privacy Taboo"tempting them with interests and benefits.

Nobody would let go of their benefits and interests, unless they were saints!

In order to find what benefits and interests to pick, Yu Sheng'an counted the resources he had with extreme care.

He discovered the only thing he had to offer for unlimited free trialsno, he should be saying that the things that had the greatest marginal effectwere Don's collections of books.

And the spread of knowledge could also help him establish a more positive image, as opposed to those false gods who bestowed power directly.

For the users, any power obtained through their own cultivation would feel much more reassuring for them!

To stave off the users' "loneliness," Yu Sheng'an took great pains to add in the "Forum" function

On one hand, he could promote it himself to eliminate the users' vigilance.

On the other hand, the forum could also increase the users' loyalty because of its entertainment and educational nature.

And the facts proved that adding those two functions was a good idea.

Although there were only a dozen of users at the moment, Yu Sheng'an felt his future began to look much brighter again with Justin as an example.

However, it was still very tiring for him to energize the forum on his own.

He had taken a quick look earlier and suddenly realized that he had made mistakes after he got confused by posting several comments rapidly in the beginning. He actually wrote ridiculous comments such as "got off the aeroplane."

It was a good thing that the Aizea Continent was vast. Even if someone noticed it, they wouldn't be able to figure out what it was. They could even think that it was a specialty somewhere. Unless there were other transmigrants!

No, he simply couldn't do it all by himself. He had to conjure up some Water Army of his to help build the momentum!

Yu Sheng'an stood up and began pacing around in the alchemy room.

Where could he get people for his Water Army?

Did he actually have to smuggle a few lost souls over and contract them to write posts for him?

Hmm, this was one solution. Let's write it down first.

Besides humans, I could also advertise it in communities from the other species!

For example, the goblins, the elves, the dwarves and so on.

However, according to the books, those species had very staunch faiths. It would be very difficult to spread his divine skills among them.

Never mind. Note it down first. Keep in mind in case this could be explored in the future.

In fact, the best Water Army to build momentum would the users themselves.

Wait a minute!

The users themselves?

A bright light flashed across Yu Sheng'an's eyes as he was lamenting.

He knew how he could build up momentum for the forum!

Yu Sheng'an summoned Rosia in his heart as soon as he thought of that.

Very soon, Rosia rushed over and knocked on the door.

"Come in, please!"

Rosia floated in submissively.

Yu Sheng'an said smilingly, "Very good. You know to use the door now. Those who didn't know you would think that you were Sadako if you continued going through walls."

Rosia smiled faintly as she replied to Yu Sheng'an's praises submissively, "What can I do for you, Master?"

"Have you seen my Internet Forum?"

That was an unnecessary question. There were just a dozen or so users and Rosia was one of them. How could Yu Sheng'an not know if she had seen it?

"I did." Rosia continued, "Congratulations, Master. Your first battle was a triumph."

Rosia had mixed feelings while she was saying this!

Nobody knew the disdain and contempt she felt deep in her heart when Yu Sheng'an was developing the divine skill!

One couldn't blame her for her disdain as the divine skill that Yu Sheng'an was creating was simply too weird.

For all she knew, divine skills should be like those Battle Halos of the Deity of War which could instill courage, fearlessness, enthusiasm and rage, etc. on thousands or even tens of thousands of people at the same time.

It should also be like the five notes of the pentatonic scale from the Goddess of Music which could ease the believers' pain, hunger and desperation, bringing upon bliss, happiness and even blessings.

Or, it could be like those of her old Master, Don, who contracted powerful demons to serve humanity with his mortal being.

But what about the divine skill created by Yu Sheng'an?

Multiple users chatting online at the same time?

Who would be so free to be chatting online the whole day?

And the facts had proven that her guess was correct. The so-called divine skill created by Yu Sheng'an had a hard time being popularized.

She could see it from the long face he was pulling now.

But, who would have thought that he could come up with the"Library"which was an epoch-making functionwithin a few days?

Frankly speaking, although Rosia wasn't very interested in the "Library," she, too, was aware of this function's practical value and historical significance.

This could very well change the fate of countless peasants!

But, what she was most interested in was still the forum.

Nobody knew how boring her life in the shrine was.

And the appearance of the forum had actually solved her problem!

The adventure stories of those mercenaries were much more exciting than those travel journals in the shrine's library.

She had been constantly refreshing the forum in the past two days.

She couldn't help but lament as she came upon terms she couldn't understand, such as "aeroplane," when she read all the different kinds of posts and imagined all their stories. Her life experiences were still very limited, even after having served a deity!

What shocked her the most was, judging from the number of people posting on the forum, there should be at least over a thousand users in Yu Sheng'an's latest divine skill!

All of them were the users who had posted. There should be even more people who didn't like to post.

If she was estimating in this manner, there could be many thousands or even tens of thousands more users.

Rosia's breathing was caught when she thought of that huge number.

And this had happened only after a few days.

She remembered the Summoning Divine Skill that her old Master, Don, had boasted to her before, which had less than one thousand users in its first year.

In order to spread the divine skill back then, her old master had to help many lowly cultivators in secret, to contract powerful demons, compete in schools and demonstrate at the battlefronts until the Summoning Divine Skill became famous and popularized.

There would be no despair if there was no comparison.

Rosia realized that her new Master's glum expression might not be due to the unsuccessful spread of the divine skill, but because of the relatively unsuccessful spread of the divine skill that he perceived.

No wonder he was the one who received the Contract Divinity. He was indeed a real genius who was even greater than her former master!

The only thing she couldn't fathom was, Yu Sheng'an's Internet Divine Skill needed to have a carrier.

The tens of thousands of users needed at least tens of thousands of carriers like the mithril rings to use the Divine Skill. How did the new master manufacture so many mithril rings within two weeks?

The crux of the matter was, even the shrine didn't have that much mithril in stock.

Could it be the users were spreading it themselves?

Wasn't this simply too unbelievable?

The "Library" points function was only developed two days prior.

Could there really be someone who was spreading the divine skills crazily for the sake of points?

Rosia couldn't fathom it at all.

"This can't be considered as a triumph. The path of spreading this divine skill is long and tortuous!"

Yu Sheng'an was rather embarrassed by her praises.

What kind of triumph was this when there were just a dozen users?

Right at this time, his facial expression suddenly changed.

Rosia sensed this and looked over curiously.

Yu Sheng'an waved his hand and the lights in the alchemy room were dimmed.

Shortly after, the scene that the Deity's Perspective saw began to appear on the illusory scroll.

Rosia was attracted to it.

In a village clearing, a strapping elder was prostrated on the ground. A table filled with fruits, meats, pies and other foodstuffs was placed in front of him.

Crowds of people in tattered clothes were kneeling behind him. There were the young, old, male and female among them so they should be the villagers.

"Great Internet Deity, we thank you for bestowing your benevolent gaze upon this poor village. Moum pledges his allegiance to you willingly!"